From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39AC2AB9.D47ADE73@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:27:21 -0700 From: "Mark A. Greer" Reply-To: mgreer@mvista.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Shnitman , linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Linux on Motorola Sandpoint/PPMC7400 References: <20000828225504.B23679@hectic.net> <39AAF258.B43B901@mvista.com> <20000829201347.A30190@hectic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > Is there any book that you recommend to get me started? Any other > docs/tips? _I_ don't know of any books that will help much for board ports. That doesn't mean there aren't any... > > I haven't tested with a 7400 but it should be fairly close if it doesn't work > > right out of the box. That is, work without altivec. I don't know what's > > involved to use the altivec support in Linux. > > In most kernels I've seen (fsmlabs', and I think yours too) there was > a CONFIG_ALTIVEC option. What does it do? I haven't looked at the altivec support in linux. Unless someone asnwers this for you, you'll have to dig into the kernel/driver code yourself to figure it out. Did the switch settings help? Mark ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/